Android users?

Discussion in 'Off-Topic' started by SonicBoom, Feb 16, 2010.

  1. SonicBoom

    SonicBoom Active Member

    ^^ Yes, its SetCpu... Not to be a fan boy of a certain mod but.. If you look up Sholesmod updater in the app market, its $5 to root & give your phone OC ability. Then you get SetCpu(99 cents) to actually adjust it. There are still a few manual steps but its very easy. Takes about 20-30 minutes if you have a strong wifi connection, a bit longer if you are using crappy 3G. Totally worth the cash. And, if your worried about the warranty issue.. there is a return to stock flash included in the app that puts you back to where you started...
     
  2. Matt

    Matt Think before you post Staff Member Supporting Member

  3. wagunz_pwn

    wagunz_pwn Active Member

  4. C_wagginz

    C_wagginz Member

    I have DROID as well...it's not rooted or OC'd...might still do that, but haven't seen the need to as of yet.

    App List:

    PandaHome for home screen replacement
    aCar for tracking fuel mileage and maintenance
    Advanced Task Killer
    Aldiko-ebook reader
    Amazon
    Amazon MP3 - supports purchasing and dl'ing straight to the phone
    AndFTP to access remote FTP servers
    androidVNC
    Apps Organizer for tagging and making folders for apps on the Home screen(s)
    aTrackDog for tracking apps and updates
    Bank of America
    Barcode Scanner
    Bartender to help you find drinks
    Battery Graph to see the trend of usage over time
    Beer Cloud - to track your beer collection, favorites, and what you've tried
    BookMobile - which lets you scan ISDN codes and catalog your "library"
    Blocks - awesome 3d tetris
    Bubble - a level :D
    Bump (thanks 2pt5RS gonna try this one out)
    ConnectBot a very handy SSH Telnet client
    craigsphone for browsing craigslist
    DailyStrip for your daily dose of comics
    DockRunner to enable the Multimedia Mode w/o the dock
    Documents to Go
    Dolphin Browser
    Droid Commander - allows you to access the droid over http
    DroidLight
    DynDNS - haven't tried yet
    FBReader - another ebook app
    Flashlight
    FourSquare
    Google Goggles, Sky Map, Voice, Listen, Places
    Hoccer - like Bump...i think
    iMusic - not sure...
    iheartradio - not in the app store, but worth dl'ing for live radio
    Meebo IM - sucks
    Key Ring
    Movies
    My Maps Editor
    My Tracks
    Nagriod for Nagios updates and alerts
    Pandora
    Note Everything
    OI File Manager - for browsing SD card - allows files on SD card to be emailed and MMS from phone
    Open Table
    Opera Mini
    Photoshop.com Mobile
    Remote RDP Demo - allows 1 stored RDP session
    Remote VNC - VNC client
    RingDroid - haven't used yet
    Run+ - for monitoring and viewing your Nike+
    Scoreboard
    SecuriteInfo.com NetAudit - kinda like an NMAP app
    Shazaam
    ShopSaavy
    Solitarie
    Sudoku Free
    SugarSync - allows transfer to your free 2gig+ account and live streaming and uploads
    Tapatalk
    Terminal Emulator - for terminal access to your android
    The Weather Channel
    Thesaurus
    Translate
    TunnelDroid - for VPN tunnels
    Twidroid - for Twitter
    Unit Converter - tons of conversions
    VPN connections
    WiFi Analyzer - to show the available networks, channels, etc.
    WikiMobile - useless
    Wine by the Bottle - to track your wine collection, favorites, and what you've tried
    WordPlayer - the better ebook reader, syncs (supposedly) with Calibre a management program for PC


    I need to find a good backup app...just in case in need to "claim" my warranty...
     
  5. Matt

    Matt Think before you post Staff Member Supporting Member

    apparently sholesmod.info is no more and was changed to droidmod.org for rooting. Also, it's free to do now. I'm in the process of rooting mine.
     
  6. SonicBoom

    SonicBoom Active Member

    ^^ Yes, this happened last week. Apparently the creator of Sholesmod left and took all the the money "donated" by people for the app.. leaving the developers collective cheese in the wind. I'm staying at the previous version (2.0.6) and not going to the 1.0 for now. For some stupid reason, they have removed the smoked glass ROM's and went back to the white notification bar and old style home key. Its just cosmetic, and can be fixed by manually loading the ROM... but that was the point of the app, to do it for you.... Let me know if you have any issues.. If I can't help, I can probably point you in the right direction.
     
  7. Matt

    Matt Think before you post Staff Member Supporting Member

    I installed it. Might keep it on for a few days and then revert back to 'stock'

    Is that a matter of just wiping the device clean and starting over? Or is there an uninstaller for it.
     
  8. SonicBoom

    SonicBoom Active Member

    Do you have the actual app installed now? I think I launched it from my SD card. If the DMupdater app is in your app drawer and you open it, it should give you a ROM menu with one of the options being back to stock. That works well... Did it come up with a white notification bar or black?
     
  9. Matt

    Matt Think before you post Staff Member Supporting Member

    dmupdater is not in my running services, if that's what you're referring to.

    come up with white notification bar? Not sure I follow there.
     
  10. SonicBoom

    SonicBoom Active Member

    Just trying to see if you have the smoked glass rom... I'm refering to the bar at the top of your homepage with you clock/signal strength etc... is it white or black?
     
  11. SonicBoom

    SonicBoom Active Member

    Just trying to see if you have the smoked glass rom... I'm refering to the bar at the top of your homepage with you clock/signal strength etc... is it white or black?
     
  12. Matt

    Matt Think before you post Staff Member Supporting Member

    oh yeah, that notifications bar... :p

    it's white
     
  13. SonicBoom

    SonicBoom Active Member

    Thats what I was afraid of... you gets no Smoked Glass ROM. You have to do it yourself.. while not impossible, much more difficult than the app doing it for you. Are you OC'd yet? Did you try the live wallpapers? Some of them looked pretty cool...
     
  14. Matt

    Matt Think before you post Staff Member Supporting Member

    yes and yes....and they are both killing my battery. lol
     
  15. SonicBoom

    SonicBoom Active Member

    How do you like the live wallpapers? It seems to me I would be like "oooohhh, thats cool.... wow, I can see my battery drain while I watch.... uninstall"..... As far as the OC'ing, I didn't notice a significant change in battery drain... battery life sucked before the OC and after :)
     
  16. Matt

    Matt Think before you post Staff Member Supporting Member

    yeah....the only issue with it is the live wallpapers aren't interactive like they are with the nexus one.

    now that I've had the OC for over 24 hours, I can see a difference in some instances, but not all. Like normal scrolling through the home screens, it's faster, but loading handcent takes just as long
     
  17. SonicBoom

    SonicBoom Active Member

    What are you OC'd to? For me, internet seems a bit faster.. scrolling threw apps and navigating the homepage seems snappier... I checked handcent since you mentioned it and its almost instantanious.. I'm at 1Ghz...
     
  18. Matt

    Matt Think before you post Staff Member Supporting Member

    I'm at 1Ghz as well.
     
  19. SonicBoom

    SonicBoom Active Member

    All Android users on here, take a look at MINFREEMANAGER on the market... DL'd a few days ago and it does seem to help speed things up and help with battery life... Can't tell if its a placebo effect or not, phone seems faster, batter does seem to last longer. Set it to Agressive...
    Brief description "Who needs a clumsy task killer? MinFreeManager allows you to set the parameters of Androids Built in memory manager the way YOU want them. No more close apps hogging your precious memory." I'll update after a few more days of testing..
     
  20. Matt

    Matt Think before you post Staff Member Supporting Member

    I was poking around in the DMupdater app and saw that I can chose which OS I want to run on the device. So that's at least 'easier' than I was expecting it to be
     
  21. SonicBoom

    SonicBoom Active Member

    yeah, there are pretty thorough walk thru's available for most things... I've been downloading new themes and messing with live wallpapers... good times..
     
  22. Mighty Mouse

    Mighty Mouse Member

    so, good buy? or bad buy? :)
     
  23. C_wagginz

    C_wagginz Member

    I would say good buy!!!! :cool:

    ...not sure of the rooting yet, though others like it and enjoy it...
     
  24. SonicBoom

    SonicBoom Active Member

    Awesome buy..... and go ahead and root... you can go back to stock no probs...
     
  25. Deke

    Deke Active Member

    Haha, ditto.
     
  26. SonicBoom

    SonicBoom Active Member

    Just learning myself... this is my 1st smartphone... I rely heavily on tech forums and friends for help or I would be lost...
     
  27. Deke

    Deke Active Member

    Yeah, my current contract finally runs out in May or June believe. I'll be stepping up to a smart phone and will likely go with a Motorola Droid (depending on what else happens with phones in the next 4 months). I guess I'll be looking into some of this eventually, but right now it's completely foreign to me.
     
  28. SonicBoom

    SonicBoom Active Member

    A lot of cool phones coming out soon.... might be a hard choice...
     
  29. calmnothing

    calmnothing Shlimp Flied Lice Supporting Member

    I just switched over to Android myself and love it so far. Well semi-switched. I have a HTC Touch Pro 2 on Sprint and am dual-booting the device with Windows Mobile 6.5 and Android 2.1. I really like the interface and the wealth of support behind such a young operating system. There's tons of apps and useful tidbits all over the place. Next phone will definitely be an Android device. Plus with all the news of Windows Mobile 7 it sounds like a disaster.
     
  30. Matt

    Matt Think before you post Staff Member Supporting Member

  31. calmnothing

    calmnothing Shlimp Flied Lice Supporting Member

  32. Protocol

    Protocol Member

    Pfft... All of these fancy devices and such. "I just typed a 12 page document pertaining to puberty and e-mailed it to my daughter while texting my BFF and opening the garage door. All while not talking on my phone!"

    Seriously though, I'm just upset because of my hideous BlackBerry contract that I am locked into. Come June when the contract is over, it's getting replaced.

    I want this... http://tiny.cc/4WLfn
     
  33. C_wagginz

    C_wagginz Member

  34. knhtrdr

    knhtrdr Active Member

    Just got a samsung Moment so far so good. so far apps just fun stuff tweetcaster,some gun apps Pandora and a taskiller gonna try those other up dates soon.
     
  35. Matt

    Matt Think before you post Staff Member Supporting Member

    drop tweetcaster and get twidroid. much better app IMO
     
  36. nicad

    nicad Yes I am a troll

    i think there is a twidroid widget in beta
     
  37. knhtrdr

    knhtrdr Active Member

    Its is! :bigthumb:
     
  38. JJang12

    JJang12 Active Member

    I just become new owner of HTC Hero. After being BB loyal for past 3 years, I finally saw the light and became android converted. I'm looking forward to get to know more about android!!
     
  39. SonicBoom

    SonicBoom Active Member

    ^^ You'll love it... go thru this thread.. there are a ton of cool app suggestions...
     
  40. nsvwrx

    nsvwrx Active Member

  41. SonicBoom

    SonicBoom Active Member

    I love the comments... Try an tell us we can't have porn Steve Jobs!
     
  42. integroid

    integroid Supporting Member

    Just a FYI - We picked up a HTC Evo yesterday for my wife. The phone lives up to the hype so far. The battery life has been pretty good so far but I turned off 4G, BLutooth, and wifi. It is simple to turn on those wireless connections so I told her to turn it on only when she needed and leave them off until needed.

    My contract is up for an upgrade at the end of the month so it will either be the EVO or 4G Iphone for me. I am thinking it will most likely be the EVO since I dont feel like getting raped with an ATT plan.
     
  43. AtlxPat

    AtlxPat Active Member

    ^ i really got screwed with getting a G1 last summer, wish i held out at least a few months before getting a droid...i gotta charge it twice a day.
     
  44. integroid

    integroid Supporting Member

  45. FTZ

    FTZ ^.^

  46. integroid

    integroid Supporting Member

    Actually I just hate ATT:)

    Seriously, if the iphone was with other carriers I would have had one by now.

    I have a Palm Pre so wtf do I know?
     
  47. Trey

    Trey Active Member

  48. ThatScottGuy

    ThatScottGuy Member

    Any Nexus One users get their 2.2 update yet?
     
  49. yerrow

    yerrow Active Member

    where do we get it?
     
  50. SonicBoom

    SonicBoom Active Member

    Don't think its been officially released yet has it? I've been running a 2.2 Beta on my Droid for the last week or so, but didn't think the "official" release was out yet for any phone.
     

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